Plagues of Egypt
There were ten plagues in Egypt at the time of the Exodus: They were:
- Water turned into blood
- Frogs
- Lice
- Flies or Wild beasts
- Diseased livestock
- Painful Boils
- Thunderstorm of hail and fire
- Locusts
- Darkness for three days
- Death of firstborn sons
These plagues meant that the Egyptians had to pay for the suffering of the Jews, by suffering themselves.
Plagues Of Egypt Media
Scenes from the Book of Exodus: The death of the firstborns (including the Pharaoh's son), and the Israelites leaving Egypt (Haggadah shel Pesaḥ, 1325–1374 CE, Barcelona via British Library)
The first plague: Water Is Changed into Blood, James Tissot
The sixth plague: miniature out of the Toggenburg Bible, created c. 1411. Commonly the picture is mistaken as a depiction of the Black Death.
Page from the Rothschild Haggadah depicting the plagues, from the collections of the National Library of Israel
Lamentations over the Death of the First-Born of Egypt by Charles Sprague Pearce (1877)